Hey slugcats,

If you were watching the Six One Indie Showcase you would have seen that Rain World: The Watcher will be coming out on March 28th!



Journey beyond to something, somewhere only ever glimpsed. When the world beneath your feet cracks and crumbles, will you hold on to all you once knew?

Consider… ripples in water, distorting the reflection of an aberrant world. Unknown creatures. Hidden threats. Secrets glimpsed through the refractions of nothingness. And through the middle of it all, a lonely, lost slugcat trying their best to outlast the ravages of a warped world.

- riv otter

Hey slugcats,

Rain World is participating in the Six One Indie Showcase with a much-anticipated announcement to be revealed!
Six One Indie is a games outlet continuously working towards delivering a new take on indie amplification through showcase spotlights and in-depth commentary on the indie gaming and development scene.

To celebrate, I’ll be hosting a watch party with the community for the showcase in the Rain World Discord on September 19th at 9am PST! You can also watch the showcase directly on Youtube!

Riv otter

Hey slugcats,

We have released a hotfix patch (v1.9.15.3) that fixes some players to be stuck in the loading screen, pup hunger bar not displaying, and more! You can read the patch notes below.

• Fixed a bug that disabled players from restarting Expedition Mode after dying on their first run.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused some players to be stuck in the loading screen.
  
• Fixed a bug that flipped the load order of asset mods.
  
• Fixed the pup hunger bar not displaying.
  
• Fixed Burdens disappearing after dying or restarting in Expedition Mode.
  
• Fixed a frequent game crash when Mother Long Legs are present in rooms.
  
• Fixed Remix’s “Jetfish Item Protection” toggle not working if More Slugcats isn’t enabled.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused Noodlefly eggs in shelters to persist after hatching.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused Layer 4 backgrounds to not be displayed in rooms that used them.
  
• Fixed multiple Safari Mode audio issues.
  
• Fixed the game occasionally reapplying mods on launch in situations where it isn’t necessary to do so.
  
• Fixed some important debug information not appearing in the log files when Dev Tools is active.
  
• Removed Slugcat (We learned that 100% of Rain World deaths were when people were playing a slugcat. We wanted to remedy this)

- riv otter

Hey slugcats,

Rain World: The Watcher is the next DLC expansion of Rain World. Journey beyond to something, somewhere only ever glimpsed. When the world beneath your feet cracks and crumbles, will you hold on to all you once knew? Or dive into the unknown?

We are working hard on Rain World: The Watcher, and I can’t wait to share more information later. For now though, please wishlist on Steam!
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2857120/Rain_World_The_Watcher/

The fourth slugcat of Rain World has not been forgotten, their time is coming.

-riv otter

Hey slugcats,

The quality of life patch (1.9.14) is now out on PC!

This includes many fixes players have been asking for such as: inaccuracies with the speedrun timer, fixing controller customized configs not saving for players 2-4, and more. Here are the full patch notes.

• Fixed controller customized configs not saving for players 2-4.
  
• Mouse buttons can now be bound in controller customized configs.
  
• Fixed some bugs that would cause issues when ordering mods in the Remix Menu, causing errors because dependencies were sometimes not respected.
  
• (Safari) Fixed Scavengers doing random actions even when not inputted to do so.
  
• (Safari) Fixed soft locks caused by creature transports moving to inaccessible areas of the region, or parts of the region from other time periods.
  
• Fixed a soft lock in CC_B04 if MSC isn’t enabled.
  
• Fixed an issue when deselecting Player 1 in the Arena Slugcat Player Selection.
  
• Fixed an issue that sometimes caused Artificer’s dream sequences to crash the game.
  
• Fixed inaccuracies with the speedrun timer.
  
• Fixed a crash when swimming near another exit pipe in flooded GW_A13 when GW_S08 had a shelter failure.
  
• Fixed the cycle length setting in Remix not also adjusting the timings for the day/night trigger.
  
• Fixed precycles making it impossible to escape MS in some scenarios outside of Rivulet’s campaign.
  
• Fixed belly slides failing to stick a spear in walls if the slugcat’s throw force was too low.
  
• Fixed issues in Expedition mission loading.
  
• Fixed the SunBlock room effect sometimes not covering the edges of the screen.
  
• General crash fixes and stability fixes.

• Guardian (by Vigaro)
  
• Merge Fix (by Bro748)
  
• Yeek Fix (by Willburd)
  
• Speedrun Timer Fix (by Forthbridge)
  
• Superstructure Fuse Fix (by Xan/Eti)
  
• Needle Cleanup (by SabreML)
  
• Miros Vulture Priority Fix (by Coder23848)
  
• Music Triggers Fix (by Jevmen)
  
• Moon and HR_C01 No Flood Fix (by solo race)
  
• No More Tinnitus (by Slime_Cubed)

-riv otter

Hey slugcats,

I am super excited to reveal the next prompts for Rain World Art Month! Thirty-one different Rain World themed art prompts for each day in March! This is easily one of the most exciting things I have developed and watched grow over the years, so I hope you’re ready for me to post pretty obsessively about it.



Here are a few options where you can post art you’ve drawn or watch the art other people have drawn for the event!

• Rain World Discord: Post in #rw-art-month-gallery
  
• Twitter: Use the hashtag #RWArtMonth
  
• Rain World Subreddit: Use the RW Art Month flair!

In the middle of all the art creation, I’ll have a few mysterious announcements during the month of March.

Also, mark your calendars for March 28th! That day is Rain World's seven year anniversary and to celebrate, we’ll be joining James to review different art pieces from Rain World Art Month. Who knows? Maybe we’ll even talk about the future of Rain World? This will be streamed on the Akupara Games Twitch.

- Riv otter

Hey slugcats,

I know you guys have been waiting for this for a long time!

We have partnered up with Black Screen Records to bring back the Rain World Vinyls! Now being covered by the amazing art of Kelekelo, if you enjoyed the music of Rain World then these records are an amazing pickup!

For those who really enjoyed the music of Rain World Downpour, the music in Rain World: Downpour by the amazing composers of Intikus, Ongomato, 12lbs, and Progfox have also been remastered for vinyl format! Also being covered by the amazing art of Kelekelo these records include 31 different songs from Rain World: Downpour!



Check out the records here!
https://blackscreenrecords.com/collections/rain-world

- Riv Otter

Hey slugcats,

After over a half of a year of Gourmand disappearing on vacation they are back and they are… plushie? Even though they may be plushie, trying to move them is back breaking work.

After many years, it is time to bring the chonk into your arms. Gourmand plushies are available for preorder!


Some of you keen eye slugcats may have noticed the slugcats floating above the gourmand plushie graphic. Those are the new adorable slugmellows pins which are also available to preorder!

And last but not least are two new amazing Rain World posters designed by the very talented Saren Stone, who you may remember when they streamed designing these posters!


You can check out all the new merchandise at the Sanshee store!

- Riv Otter

Hey, slugcats!

It has been so amazing to organize another Rain World Art Month and watch all the art pieces drawn for the event. Thank you everyone who participated in the event! It has been wonderful to watch RW Art Month grow over the years! This is the first time the event has expanded to Steam! I wanted to talk about some stats, important links, and announcements made during the event.

Total art: 5,827 (+4,578 from last year)
Unique artists: 1,060
Most popular prompt: Gourmand: 623 art pieces | 2nd: Spearmaster: 444
Average art piece per day: 146.7

Rain World Art Month full gallery: If you would like to see all the art that has been drawn throughout the event, I have uploaded all the art to Google Drive.

Rain World Art Month Museum: We’ve updated the museum to include more art and more prompts from the event!

Slugpup Plushies: Survivor, Monk, Hunter, and Nightcat slugpup plushies are available for preorders! They are squishable and small.

Rain World Vinyl: We are teaming up with Black Screen Records to develop a base game reprint and new upcoming Downpour companion vinyl. No preorders available quite yet but like the posters, but once these become available, I’ll be sure to update you all! You can also sign up for the Black Screen Records mailing list to keep an eye out for more info!

Rain World posters: If you watched Saren Stone’s stream you would have gotten a sneak peek at the Rain World posters being worked on! Once these become available, I’ll be sure to let you know!

I have so much more coming soon and are excited to talk about it with you when we have more information on them! We even hinted at a lizard plushie and pin in the works.

-Riv Otter

Hey slugcats,

We have just released a hotfix to fix the input issues.

• Fixed Down & Left directions on the keyboard not being rebindable in the input settings menu.
  
• Fixed game crash on the input settings menu if the player had a controller bound to the 4th player in their save file prior to the 1.9.07 update.
  
• Fixed Sandbox Mode controls not working.

We apologize for the inconvenience that this may have caused and thank you all for your patience and bug reports.

- Riv Otter